ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul

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ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul

Post by MachineGhost » Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:05 pm

Pulling a Reub...

[quote=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/isis-bur ... 00856.html]While the world was watching the Academy Awards ceremony, the people of Mosul were watching a different show. They were horrified to see ISIS members burn the Mosul public library. Among the many thousands of books it housed, more than 8,000 rare old books and manuscripts were burned.

“ISIS militants bombed the Mosul Public Library. They used improvised explosive devices,”? said Ghanim al-Ta'an, the director of the library. Notables in Mosul tried to persuade ISIS members to spare the library, but they failed.[/quote]
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Re: ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul

Post by dualstow » Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:31 pm

It's the Bamiyan Buddhas all over again.
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Re: ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul

Post by ochotona » Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:36 pm

That's what happens when cultural practices drive the population to intermarry first cousins at such an astoundingly high rate. >:(
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Re: ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul

Post by Jan Van » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:03 am

I guess Google was too late to digitize them?
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Re: ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul

Post by fnord123 » Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:00 am

Barbarians doing what barbarians do. Very depressing :(
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